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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein
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1) Nowadays, we are relentlessly and endlessly bombarded with new information. There's always much to remember, yet our brains capture so little of that information. Even the stuff that's worth remembering often makes only a short-lived impression on us before disappearing forever.
2) Education has been tainted by the boring tradition of rote learning....
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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking.
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1) We all experience feelings of inferiority which we carry with us from childhood into adulthood. The first thing you need to do to get over this inferiority complex is figure out where it stems from, perhaps with the aid of a counselor.
2) Always remember that God is on your side. With him, everything is possible, even if you don't...
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Summary of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit is a thorough examination of several case studies about how habit formation and habit change impact daily life. It details the experiences of individuals, corporations, and organizations to illustrate how habits are made and why, how they can be changed, how habits of all kinds are used in businesses to attract customers or manage employees, and the devastating results of a poorly managed habit…
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Summary of Steven C. Hayes & Spencer Smith's Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life is a self-help book that encourages people to detach from the causes of suffering, embrace their psychological pain, identify their values, and take action toward those values. The process is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based therapy that focuses on techniques of mindfulness, acceptance, and values-centric living...
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Summary of Chip Heath's The Power of Moments explores how life and work can be enriched by the creation of special experiences. These defining moments encompass people's most meaningful experiences and encounters and can deepen relationships among individuals, organizations, and customers…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Gay Hendricks's The Genius Zone
Too frequently, we lead unfulfilling lives, never realize our full potential, and fail to incorporate creativity into our everyday routines. Gay Hendricks's The Genius Zone (2021) shows you how to change that by tapping into your own inner creativity.
Making Genius Moves is a life-changing technique that encourages you to stop thinking negatively and grow authentically into your...
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Summary of Stephen Covey's First Things First is a time-management book that asks readers to examine their most deeply held values. When people center the things in life that are most important, whatever those may be, triaging a busy schedule becomes an easy exercise instead of an ongoing nightmare...
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Summary of Gay Hendricks's The Big Leap reveals one of the most common barriers to an individual's success: the Upper Limit Problem (ULP), a self-imposed, subconscious limit for how much happiness and positivity someone can feel. Using research, case studies, and personal experience, Hendricks explores how the ULP can prevent someone from taking The Big Leap, or reaching his or her highest potential...
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Summary of Anne Lamott's Almost Everything is a collection of essays on finding glimmers of optimism even amid great turbulence. Just before her sixty-first birthday, Lamott wrote these essays to share the wisdom she has gleaned from her many decades of living with her grandson and niece...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance (2014) is a psychology and self-help book about realizing our true potential through the power of flow – a state of consciousness characterized by total immersion in an activity. American author Steven Kotler explains how flow has enabled extreme athletes to push the boundaries of human potential. He...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Ron Friedman's Decoding Greatness
We've been told for generations that there are two ways to succeed: talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness (2021), award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman reveals a powerful third path-reverse engineering-that has discreetly launched legends in a variety of industries, from artists, writers, and chefs to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
Friedman reveals the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis
In The Comfort Crisis (2021), Michal Easter explains why it's so important to shut down the outside world and reconnect with nature, for all the benefits it provides for our relationships and our physical and mental health.
The world we live in today is embedded in comfort, routine, and fake pleasures. It tries to shift our priorities and alter them, by keeping us focused...
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Summary of Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life explains how people's thoughts and beliefs about themselves can become the cause of longstanding physical and emotional problems. This twentieth anniversary edition (2004) includes an afterword that describes the book's huge success since its initial publication…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Annie F. Downs's That Sounds Fun.
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1) As we grow older, we start to feel something lacking. We begin feeling as though we have lost something along the way, and sometimes this feeling persists through everything we do. Although we laugh, our hearts are weary.
2) We feel as though we lost something because we have gone through experiences that take us away from Eden. As youngsters, we were...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Katy Milkman's How to Change
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1) The stubborn persistence of unhealthy or unproductive behavior is common today. This includes habits such as smoking, lack of physical activity, and terrible diets. Simply telling people that change is easy, cheap, and beneficial will not work. Effectively promoting behavior change requires understanding when to begin.
2) People get discouraged when adopting...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn.
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1) Our soul is like a lighthouse where we can climb up and see the vast ocean of the universe, and observe anything that passes through it. It's the purest expression of ourselves and of being alive, that no one could wreck.
2) The soul does get damaged throughout life. Circumstances and hardships may wear and tear it, but it is never mortally damaged. It...
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